It’d be lovely if you could just see the hexbear powerusers somewhere convenient and mass block. I went through a couple subreddits of theirs, found the top posts, blocked everyone with more than 50 upvotes. Real pain in the ass, but I suddenly have far fewer teenagers who peaked in middle school debate club to deal with.
I make no such posturing, because I don’t give a rat’s ass what you think of me. I’m not dedicating my life’s work to.. making other internet less pleasant for everyone else? Because you can’t possibly be so deluded as to think your actions as a whole are positive?
Anyways, there’s no chance in hell lil smoothbrain me is going to convince any of you enlightened geniuses of our time to pull your heads out of your collective asses. I’m just annoyed you make the meme machine worse.
The only cult behavior I see is from you noxious ass liberals who all speak in the same reddit cadence acting all aggrieved because people are to the left of you and aren't being nice to you
No I’d much rather the sour grapes act than the fascist 101 “I’m going to speak all civil and try to make you appear unreasonable for being so aggressive against me”.
You don’t get rid of fascists or tankies through tolerance and acceptance after all.
You can actually go to Hexbear communities like mentalhealth or mutual_aid and half the posts are shit like "I need help paying rent" and "I hate my job"
You're so married to the reactionary idea of "Communists are all just ignorant teenagers" that you can't see the evidence against it when it's right in front of you
But not initiating a thread by going out of your way to insult a swath of people. That's not being obnoxious. It's replying to it with anything but meek deference that's obnoxious. Just let everyone know ahead of time that you're the main character and we need to treat you special, okay? Can't fault us if we don't know, right?
I gave you the benefit of the doubt. I don't see you being "obnoxious" about the racist and ableist users in your home instance.
So we could say that you have less acceptance of the inclusive and open to discussion (in goof faith) instance users, than the hate lovers users of yours.
Of course, I don't want to generalize. I saw a bunch of cool users in here
Have you browsed Hexbear? This ain't trolling. It's very much genuine.
If it is trolling, then it's just an entire instance posting an inside joke and then pointing and laughing at the people not in-the-know who don't "get it."
Hey thank you for your response!
It was indeed bait, because I thought you saw being ND as a negative, from the way you phrases your statement. I am glad to hear it was me that misunderstood you.
I've just seen a few too many use it as a way to demean others.
Also: the fact that Hexbear users are making a point to go tone-policing after calling anyone who makes even the slightest criticism against them "racist" and "ableist" should tip y'all off that Hexbear is almost purely a troll instance.
Plenty of criticism is handled without pointing out racist language, because that criticism does not contain racist language.
Bigotry is boiled into a large amount of our day-to-day verbage, and sometimes we become blind to it. Adding the suffix -tard to words for example has become common, but it is still tied to hurtful and demeaning language.
Suggesting someone "sucks a dick" is a common insult, but the insult here is the implication that the other person engages in sexual relations with a man, which is presented as a negative. While we do not think of this in the moment, that is still the root of the insult.
Such language is not tolerated on hexbear, and as a result users have gotten very perceptive of it. Could they be nicer at pointing it out? Certainly, at times it's a fair mistake to make, and at times - such as here - they're much too quick on the draw. However I think the context should be remembered, which is that Hexbear has had to deal with a wealth of wreckers, and as such a lot of users assume that a person that is hostile, negative and also uses language that could be perceived as bigoted and that language is used in a manner to insult (or what can be perceived as something meant to be an insult) then they end up assuming the worst at times. This is most certainly something that Hexbear users could do better at.
But being frustrated at having it pointed out is silly, just as it is silly to continue using that language after having pointed out it's problematic aspects.
This stuff is pointed out regardless of a user agreeing or disagreeing with another user - it is in fact unrelated to it.
[sarcasm tone indicator, cuz some of y'all need it]
You know what it's not cute? Discrimination. In this case, your ableism.
We call out the ableism and racism of some users of this instance. That's the real reason of your "obnoxious" feeling, regarding the Hexbear users. Our zero tolerance to hate.
"America bad looool I just debunked imperialist propoganda"
Is just about the highest IQ take I've seen out of hexbear. Ya'll got that cult-like disconnection from reality.
Also when there was a user in unixporn yesterday asking what words will replace "ricing" now that it's entered social consciousness that the term has a racially based origin, a hexbear jumped in to say it's now going to be called "crackering".
Wow, dunked on that racism so hard.
It was so racist of that user to better themselves and replace a racial work with a non-racial word. Good thing we have hexbear to help out.
Having had a disagreement with you in another thread and seen you mischaracterize it as "supporting the rape of innocent women and children" to someone else, I'm fairly confident that if anyone has a cult-like disconnection from reality, it's likely you.
If someone tells me it's bad to be anti-racism, or that systemic racism isn't real, I'm of course going to say they support racism.
Your position was that it's bad to help Ukrainians defend their families from being raped because it damages worker solidarity. Yeah, you're not going around raping anyone yourself, you simply supporting the system in which it occurs.
And I don't think supporting the system of rape is intentional on your part either. I think you're anti-America (which is good) to the point that you'll be apologetic towards rape (which is bad), as long as it means you keep being anti-America.
Your position was that it's bad to help Ukrainians defend their families from being raped because it damages worker solidarity
No, actually I was articulating someone else's perspective, which was that advocating for greater conflict as retribution for rape is misguided, and I think it's a reasonable perspective and not, as you and others were suggesting, evidence of faux leftism.
But good-faith representations of perspectives you disagree with doesn't seem to be one of your strengths.
I've talked to too many covert Nazis who will say, "Oh, I don't believe that Jews secretly control the world, I'm just here to tell you that some people believe it, and here's the evidence they use."
Don't argue someone else's position. If you want to talk about disingenuous, that is disingenuous.
State your own position on the rape of civilians and minors in Ukraine.
I'm personally enraged and disgusted by Russia's invasion and brutalizing of the Ukrainian people, and I'd be happy if this war ended with the death of Putin and his allies.
But Im not naive enough to believe that's a likely outcome. I think it's far more likely that this war will impoverish Ukraine for the next half-century and create a generation of orphans and refugees that will never know the country that existed before this war.
I think its ethically abhorrent to cheer on its continuation, and even more, I think it's childish and absurd to think continued US involvement in it would lead to anything beneficial for the Ukrainian people.
And I think the people who are blinded by their rage are the least qualified to cast judgement on what should be legitimate leftist geopolitical policy. The same people who are play-acting outrage against leftists being too openly violent are the ones seemingly giddy to see Ukraine being tossed near limitless weapons to add to the already half-million dead, over a conflict almost certainly created by US involvement to begin with and which is unlikely to end at all well for Ukraine. You're advocating for the sacrifice of Ukraine for the chance to destroy Russia, and I find that more heartless and disgusting than anything anyone on Hexbear has said so far.